Just last month I made a batch of custom picture frames, and I thought at the time that it would be a while before I made any more....Wrong! I already need more due to the recent arrival of a series of prints I had forgotten I'd ordered. I'm going to make two identical frames and rotate the artwork, mainly because I am running out of hanging space. I'm using more recycled oak; these pieces came from an old table and have a number of holes to work around.
The base material is 1/2" x 5/8" oak:
Several passes through the router table and I have my basic molding - I rounded over both visible corners and cut a 3/16" square rabbit:
Mitered the molding into appropriate pieces - the internal size of the frames is 11-3/4" x 16-3/4" and I am not using any mount card.
When assembling rectangular frames, it is important to construct pairs of long and short sides first, all in the same orientation. Each pair can then be coupled:
The oak frames were sprayed first with primer...
...and then several coats of black semi-gloss:
I had a piece of 18" x 24" glass leftover from the last batch of frames. I cut off an 16-3/4 wide section and then trimmed both pieces.
I'm planning to rotate the artwork in these frames, so I installed turn buttons instead of staples and tape as I usually would:
Cleaned the glass, mounted the artwork and installed D-rings and picture wire:
I have a selection of six reproduction adverts from the London Underground; these two are going up first:
No comments:
Post a Comment